ParoXum Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Time to prepare the overclock of my 9600GT + Zalman Cu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeta Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 goodman Alucard155 thx for taking the time to do that + hehe nearly double the Pixel Fill Rate and near 3x as much Bandwidth LOL awesome + the memory size. thx again and Im sure GTAIV will run smooth as silk :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alucard155 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 goodman Alucard155 thx for taking the time to do that + hehe nearly double the Pixel Fill Rate and near 3x as much Bandwidth LOL awesome + the memory size. thx again and Im sure GTAIV will run smooth as silk :-) Hope so m8.. Been hearing some bad stuff like square boxes on NVIDIA cards in general and framedrops all around.. Normally my card should pull this off no problem but hey, I have been disappointed before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[email protected] Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 I had to knock down the default graphic options quite a bit on my PC (dual-core 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 640MB GeForce 8800) until I got an acceptable rate, and even then there was the occasional really nasty drop. i really dont like the idea of this im running a e8400 4Gb ram and a 9600GT and i was hoping to get most of the settings on high if not medium Well... That was a sore point of the review, not even stating what settings where run and at what FPS the game ran at. Its a very big factor in the PC gaming world to know what the performance of the games are and how well they are optimized, the average 'gamer' review tends to drop the ball on the benchmarking to... well just say complete garbage, telling us to read the x360 AGAIN... no! Anyhow in 36 i will have this game and i will make my own mind up. Later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeta Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Alucard155 yea thats true I hope where fine well I hope we all are but only time will tell yea I forsee spending quite abit of time tweaking with ingame options... Just remember to Defrag ur HD after u install the game while its defragging to prepare some munchies and drinks and by the time you get that done u be ready to play , always better to give it the best possible start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alucard155 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Alucard155 yea thats true I hope where fine well I hope we all are but only time will tell yea I forsee spending quite abit of time tweaking with ingame options...Just remember to Defrag ur HD after u install the game while its defragging to prepare some munchies and drinks and by the time you get that done u be ready to play , always better to give it the best possible start. Lol I hate that pre-game messing around with the options! Still as long as there's chips and coke I'll be fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iristrauma Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 If any of you chaps need a decent Graphics card on a budget, go for the HD 4850/70.. The 4850 is blisteringly fast and you should be able to max the game out on that card pretty much depending on how much CPU and ram you have.. Got my HD 4850 for only 120 quid.. Fallout 3 Maxed out at 1280 x 1024 Crysis Maxed out.. COD WaW Maxed out.. Great card all round.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crowstwo Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 If any of you chaps need a decent Graphics card on a budget, go for the HD 4850/70.. The 4850 is blisteringly fast and you should be able to max the game out on that card pretty much depending on how much CPU and ram you have.. Got my HD 4850 for only 120 quid.. Fallout 3 Maxed out at 1280 x 1024 Crysis Maxed out.. COD WaW Maxed out.. Great card all round.. I submit i also have a Sapphire 4850 wich was pretty cheap and runs like HELL Better than any 9600-9800GTX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malik Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 If any of you chaps need a decent Graphics card on a budget, go for the HD 4850/70.. The 4850 is blisteringly fast and you should be able to max the game out on that card pretty much depending on how much CPU and ram you have.. Got my HD 4850 for only 120 quid.. Fallout 3 Maxed out at 1280 x 1024 Crysis Maxed out.. COD WaW Maxed out.. Great card all round.. LOL 'only'? Here in holland I bought it for 140 euros last week and google says 1 British pound = 1.20 Euros also how do you play it maxed, can we have any cpu ram details of your rig plz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeta Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 HD 4850 fancy Grabbing GPU-Z and uploading the Info me and Alucard155 did would be nice as a wee comparison just to see... I wont be upgrading PC for awhile, well I plan to make 2 new rigs next year a energy efficent mini-itx pc for web browsing and watching movies and a new Gaming rig, Mini-itx pc 80watts sounds good to me cuz atm electricity went up so only going to use gaming PC for actual gaming once I get that mini pc build 20cm x 20cm the mb is its tiny + u can fit dual+quad cores on them but not sure if thats nessarcy still in early research phase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasil Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 That was a sore point of the review, not even stating what settings where run and at what FPS the game ran at. Exactly. Neither a word about which resolution used. I mean, these reviews are bs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkapeGote Posted December 1, 2008 Author Share Posted December 1, 2008 Yeah that bothers me, knowing this is a PC release you would think they would have come up with benchmarks and the lot. I dunno, seems fishy. Skape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_f_mac Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 I believe this one won't have any problems with max settings at 1280X1024 In combination with 3 gb ram and c2d 3.16 gHz Or i'll just lower traffic density and turn off AA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomern11 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Damn, i guess that a core 2 quad, 3 gb ram, and a 512 mb ATI radeon hd 3870 won't max it at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13th_Disciple Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 In comparison to my rig i think I'll be able to run GTA slightly better then this 'eurogamer' reviewer, would be nice to know the resolution obviously, i run at 1650x1050 with an over-clocked 8800GTX and i think a quad core CPU will better the results even further, even though my card is getting on bit the results of a quick benchmark (see below) fairs admirably amongst todays cards and GTA-IV being a new PC game you would like to use a 'new' graphics card to boot, not affordable of course for most, but how much are we just hoping and needlessly pushing for the best eye candy while ignoring the obvious game play enjoyment of GTA, thus the 9/10 score in this review... If you cannot play GTA-IV on an older card without having fun whether or not it's maxed out to the hilt graphically then your missing the point slightly i feel, although we do like to show off our bits...ewww didn't mean to sound like that... Those with 4:3 native resolutions should have an easier time of things on most cards, remember to always get the latest drivers for your card, clean out any rubbish from your system if you need to, defrag, drivers etc etc, you know what i mean... do yourself some extra frame-rate favors! kill those stutters! ...and you always know maybe a month or two later comes... the patch! - If at first you don't succeed, call it Version 1.0! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAMonkey2012 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Ive said it before that if I get 20 percent better graphics at 1400x900 with 2x AA, draw distance and traffic density than the console version running at about 30fps with a few drops now and again then Im happy, anything else is a bonus. Remember the scaling tweaks in the readme for this game, and all you driver updates and tweaks and any other config stream tweaks that we can do, this wont have even been touched by reviewers. They just had stock pre release review versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockstar1 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 I rather ment major framerate drops, which do not happen on a console at all I believe. (I may be wrong, errare humanum est) The consoles do have major framerate drops, when you get a lot of action at once. LOL at the people worried about performance with 8800s and C2D. With those PC specs, if the game doesn't run and look considerably better than the consoles, than Rockstar did a sh*tty job of optimizing. I'm hoping my X1900 can pull this off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rcguy150 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Simply put, if your PC runs other higher end games well, then you shouldn't worry. Reviewers and Rockstar are simply scaring you into buying new parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeta Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Nice, gj uploading the data from GPU-Z guys + cheers!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asd23 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Horribly unoptimized? If a 8800 doesn't cut it, HOW THE HELL does it run on consoles? They're crappier than most PCs out right now. A f*cking shame, how porting can ruin a game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA_XP Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 I have 9600M GT and C2D P8400 and 4GB RAM. It sno problrm for me on medium/low settings, its all about the gameplay and the taste of GTA IV! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_G Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 What a lame review. "dual-core 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 640MB GeForce 8800" Dual-core WHAT? 2GB of what RAM and how fast and at what timings? And there are a LOT of 8800s, luckily in this case there are only two 640MB cards. 8800 GTS and 8800 GTS 112. The first one is roughly equal to an 8800GT 512MB, the latter is considerably better. I'm guessing he is more CPU-bound than GPU, probably running an Athlon 64 X2 2.4GHz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomern11 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Did the reviewer ment about a Pentium D CPU or a Core 2 Dual? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 I think this baby should max it, considering I run at a resolution of 1440x900. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abel. Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 (edited) I had to knock down the default graphic options quite a bit on my PC (dual-core 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 640MB GeForce 8800) until I got an acceptable rate, and even then there was the occasional really nasty drop. i really dont like the idea of this im running a e8400 4Gb ram and a 9600GT and i was hoping to get most of the settings on high if not medium Same, I'm worried due to the game's strong nVidia bias... Then again, my 19 inch LCD only goes up to 1440''900, so I may be safe maxed out. SkapeGote : I feel f*cking horrible for you mate, bastard vandals. Edited December 1, 2008 by elanman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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